Health care reform is driving organizations to move toward ACO designation and physician leaders will play an increasingly important role in transforming delivery of care. Witt/Kieffer Senior Vice President Christine Mackey-Ross recently moderated a discussion on this topic between two leading physician executive CEOs – John B. Chessare, MD, President and CEO, Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Baltimore and S. Rockwell (Rocky) Fredrickson, MD, President and Managing Director of Physician Integration of Integris Physicians Services in Oklahoma City.
The shift to ACO is one that requires some organizations to look beyond just aligning physicians. “The transition from transaction-based medicine to ACO is really about integrating care. The transition is going to be really hard,” says Dr. Chessare. ACOs are also changing the perception of patient care, according to Dr. Fredrickson. “If we go towards this new world of patient-home models, we have to make a giant leap from one business model to one of performance-based, patient-centric, bundled care.”
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